Linux

VMware need to re-run vmware-config.pl every reboot on linux

I found using VMware server or workstation on udev based linux kernel (2.6.x) hosts, that I had to re-run the vmware-config.pl script after every reboot – which is quite annoying when you want the guest OS to run as the service starts.

The issue is that due to udev being a dynamic system, nodes are wiped and re-created in /dev each boot. So the simple solution is to get the VMware init script to check for and re-create the nodes as required: